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Google launches AI game maker Playground with Unity

Google has launched Playground, an experimental platform that lets users build, play and share their own games by typing text prompts. The Financial Times reported that Google is working on the project with game engine maker Unity Software. The launch…

Anthropic expands startup program with free Claude Team

Anthropic on Tuesday, Oct. 6, expanded its Claude Startups program. Approved founders now get $1,000 in Claude API credits, a free year of Claude Team for up to five premium seats, and up to $45,000 in discounts and credits from…

OpenAI turns ChatGPT into an app platform at DevDay

OpenAI used its DevDay event on Tuesday to unveil a suite of updates that push ChatGPT further toward becoming a platform for third-party software, announcing new plugin extensions that give outside apps a permanent home inside the chatbot and a…

Meta admits its hit AI app Muse was modeled on OpenClaw

Meta has acknowledged that its hit AI app Muse draws heavily from the open-source project OpenClaw, after users discovered striking similarities between the two products' underlying file structures and configurations.

Z.AI open-sources ZCode after tool secretly uploaded developer files

Z.AI, the Chinese artificial intelligence company behind the GLM model family, open-sourced its ZCode coding assistant on Monday after the tool was caught silently packaging and uploading developers' local workspace data to cloud servers without consent.

Study finds AI adoption boosts senior jobs, cuts junior roles across 41 countries

Chamath Palihapitiya, the venture capitalist and CEO of AI coding startup 8090 Labs, has warned that popular AI coding tools risk turning a generation of software developers into "slot machine" players who churn out flawed code at speed rather than…

Meta opens Muse AI agent to third-party developers

Meta opened the Muse Connector Platform to third-party developers on September 19, 2026, inviting outside services to plug into its personal AI agent just 11 days after Muse first launched in the United States. Mark Zuckerberg framed the move succinctly:…

Claude Code finally adds AGENTS.md support for cross-tool compatibility

Anthropic took a step toward cross-platform compatibility on Friday by announcing support for the AGENTS.md file format in Claude Code, the company's AI-powered coding tool. The move aligns Anthropic with a growing ecosystem of AI developer tools that share a…

Apple releases Xcode 27.1 beta for iPhone Duo development

Apple on Friday released Xcode 27.1 beta 1, giving developers their first tools to build and optimize apps for the upcoming foldable iPhone Duo. The release, available through Apple's developer portal, fulfills the company's promise to deliver development support before…

Anthropic launches Claude Code Projects with persistent AI coordinator for developers

Anthropic on Thursday unveiled a redesigned Projects feature for Claude Code, introducing a persistent coordinator agent that can break engineering goals into parallel cloud-based threads, each running as a full coding session on its own branch and repository copy. The…

Altman teases major OpenAI launch days after backing AI slowdown call

Just days after endorsing a call to slow the pace of AI development, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman signaled that his company is far from pumping the brakes. On Tuesday, September 15, Altman posted on X: "big ship this week and…

OpenAI to retire GPT-5.5 from ChatGPT and Codex on Oct. 14

OpenAI announced on September 15 that it will remove GPT-5.5 from ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work, and Codex on October 14, giving developers and users roughly a month to migrate their workflows to newer models. The retirement applies across all subscription tiers,…

OpenAI launches Agents API in public beta

OpenAI on Thursday released its Agents API in public beta, giving developers access to the same infrastructure that powers its Codex coding agent and ChatGPT for Work through a single API call. The launch was part of a broader wave…

OpenAI plans Managed Agents unveil at DevDay 2026

OpenAI is preparing for its fourth annual developer conference, DevDay 2026, scheduled for September 29 at Fort Mason in San Francisco. CEO Sam Altman will deliver the opening keynote at 10:00 a.m. Pacific time, with the company billing it as…

Microsoft unveils Project Zenith, a Windows for AI developers

Microsoft has officially unveiled Project Zenith, a preconfigured Windows 11 experience designed to turn developer-class PCs into ready-to-code machines straight out of the box. The announcement, made on September 4, formalizes an effort the company first previewed at Build 2026…

Meta releases Muse Spark 1.3 amid AI model race

Meta released two AI products this week as it pushes to keep pace in an increasingly crowded model race and looks to accelerate its product pipeline following the resolution of major litigation.

Google set to release Gemini 3.8 Flash coding AI model

Google Alphabet Inc. is poised to release a new AI model with upgraded coding capabilities as early as Wednesday, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal News Corp. The model, Gemini 3.8 Flash, known internally as "Skimaki," represents…

Google’s Gemini 3.8 Flash said to close coding gap with rivals

Google Alphabet Inc. is preparing to release a new artificial-intelligence model with markedly improved coding abilities, potentially closing a gap with rivals Anthropic and OpenAI that has dogged the company for months. The model, called Gemini 3.8 Flash and known…

OpenAI to cut off Cursor after SpaceX acquisition

OpenAI announced on Friday that it will terminate its agreement to provide AI models to Cursor, the coding-tool company now owned by Elon Musk's SpaceX, citing concerns that SpaceX would not use its technology in compliance with its terms of…

Shopify CEO considers banning Claude Code over file format dispute

Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke said on Monday he is considering banning Claude Code across the company because Anthropic's AI coding tool refuses to natively read AGENTS.md files, a widely adopted convention for giving AI agents project-specific instructions.

OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 models launch inside AWS’s Kiro coding tool

OpenAI announced on Monday that its GPT-5.6 model family is now available inside Kiro, AWS's Amazon.com, Inc. spec-driven development environment, deepening a partnership between the two companies that has escalated to more than $100 billion in committed spending over the…

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Nvidia strikes $7B Poolside deal to rival DeepSeek, OpenAI

Nvidia has agreed to pay $6 billion to license AI models from startup Poolside and will invest an additional $1 billion in the company, assembling a combined $7 billion commitment aimed at building a powerful open-weight AI model to compete…

OpenAI’s Codex tops 20M users, triggering resets for all paid subscribers

OpenAI's Codex coding tool has surpassed 20 million active users, the company confirmed this week, marking a milestone in one of the fastest-growing AI products of 2026. To celebrate, engineering lead Thibault Sottiaux announced that every Codex and ChatGPT Work…

Slack launches coding channels for teams to build software with AI agents

Slack Salesforce, Inc. on Thursday debuted Slack Code, a feature that turns its workplace messaging platform into a collaborative coding environment where teams can build software alongside AI agents in dedicated project channels.

GitHub suffers major worldwide outage, disrupting millions of developers

GitHub, the world's largest code-hosting platform, went down on Monday morning, leaving developers across the globe unable to access repositories, merge pull requests, or run automated workflows as error rates spiked across the platform's core services.

China deploys DeepSeek Harness on national supercomputing platform

DeepSeek released Harness on August 13, 2026, an open-source AI agent execution framework built around a single architectural principle: everything is a plugin. The developer preview, released under the MIT license, allows models, tools, skills, sessions, sandboxes, and even the…

Airbnb CEO Chesky says AI writes 60% of code, confirms new AI lab

Brian Chesky, the chief executive of Airbnb, revealed that artificial intelligence now writes 60% of the company's new code and called on Silicon Valley to redirect its AI efforts toward everyday consumers rather than enterprise customers.

DeepSeek launches open-source coding agent to rival Claude Code

DeepSeek on Thursday released an open-source agent framework designed to challenge Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex, marking the Chinese AI lab's most direct move yet into the software layer that controls how AI models execute complex coding tasks.

DeepSeek forms team to challenge Anthropic’s Claude Code

DeepSeek, the Chinese AI startup known for producing competitive models on limited resources, activated official social media accounts on Wednesday and posted job listings for a new team tasked with building AI coding agents, marking the company's most visible push…

Vibe-coding startup Lovable raises $400M, doubles valuation to $13.3B

Swedish vibe-coding startup Lovable announced on Wednesday that it has closed a $400 million Series C round at a $13.3 billion valuation, roughly doubling the $6.6 billion it commanded when it closed its Series B in December. The round was…